Artist: Powderfinger
Song: Empty Space
Album: "Footprints" The Best of Powderfinger 2001 - 2011 (2011)
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footprints:_The_Best_of_Powderfinger,_2001-2011;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powderfinger
Tempo: 4|4
Style: Ballad
Tuning: Standard
Chords:
EADGBe
Am: X02210
C: 332010
Em: 022000
Asus2: X02200
G: 320003
INTRO:
|Am |
VERSE 1:(Solo Rhythm)
AmCEm
Everybody saying, it's such a shame -
GAmAsus2AmC
About you and I.
Em
Who are they to say -
GAm Aus2 Am
That we never tried?
EmCEmAm
Was it all a waste, was it all in vain?
(Lead Refrain)
VERSE 2:
CEmAmAsus2AmC
I never ever saw this coming in,
AmEm
Not from without, not from within,
GAmAsus2Am
Either of our lives, (Drums Begin)
EmC
Was it all a waste, was it all in vain?
(Lead Refrain)
BRIDGE:(Keyboard Accompaniment)
EmG
Empty space,
C
I still want you by my side,
G
In my heart you'll stay.
CG
Even if the Sun refused to shine,
Em
I still want you by my side.
GEmAm
In my heart you'll stay.
VERSE 4:(Solo Rhythm + Lead over)
CEm
Can you tell me true, is there any use.
GAmAsus2AmC
In us keeping on,
Em
We found another way, we can't excuse,
GAmAsus2Am
How it got so wrong.
EmC
Was it all a waste, was it all in vain?
(Lead Refrain)
VERSE 3:(All instruments)
EmG
Empty space,
C
I still want you by my side.
G
In my heart you'll stay.
CG
Even if the Sun refused to shine,
Em
I still want you by my side.
GEmAm
In my heart you'll stay.
INSTRUMENTAL:(Rhythm + Lead Only)
|AmCEmG |
|AmAsus2AmEmC |
|EmGAm Aus2 Am|
EmC
Was it all a waste? Was it all in vain?
REFRAIN:(Distorted Repetitious Rhythm over)
EmAmAsus2AmC
All in vain?
EmAmAsus2AmC
Was it all in vain?
(Lead Riff Over)
|EmAmAsus2AmC |
|EmAmAsus2AmC|
VERSE 4:(All instruments: Cyclical Rhythm under)
EmAmAsus2AmC
I still want you by my side.
EmAmAsus2AmC
In my heart you'll stay.
EmAmAsus2AmC
Even if the sun refused to shine,
EmAmAsus2AmC
In my heart you'll stay.
EmAmAsus2AmC
Can you tell me true, is there any use.
EmAmAsus2AmC
In us keeping on?
EmAmAsus2AmC
Was it all in Vain? Yeah-hey?
(Lead Refrain)
CODA:(Lead over)
EmAmAsus2AmCEm
Oh, I never saw this coming in - [Fade]
[Coda]
Notes.
1. "...This is a lovely music video for Powderfinger, directed by Brisbane animator (and
Ozanimate writer) Paul Lalo. The clip heralds the band's newly released best of
compilation Footprints. The 4 minute piece is a great example of the power of simple,
well designed story telling. Paul tells me it was completed in an astonishingly short
time period,
in a makeshift 12 man living room studio at his south Brisbane house. Hats off to the
crew who helped bring it all together, and in particular to Art Director Jenni Vigaud who
makes her animation debut." http://www.ozanimate.com/2d/powder-finger-empty-spaces/
2. As this was the only previously unreleased single to be included on this
retrospective compilation album, the lyrics are self-referential to "Powderfinger's" own
Swan Song. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Fanning